DEAR News Of The Area, IT is fairly well accepted that the number one way to prevent Covid-19 spread is for everyone to be sufficiently vaccinated against the virus. At present this means double vaccination. The problem is getting complete vaccination closer to 100% of the population. The answer of course is to make

  IN 2014 the Red Cross celebrated 100 years in Australia. An Australian Branch of the British Red Cross was formed on the outbreak of WWI. In response to the call, Branches were formed at Bowraville, Taylors Arm, Macksville and Nambucca Heads, with members providing support for soldiers overseas. With the exception of a

  DEAR News Of The Area, I TOTALLY agree with George Partos (Can Councillors be held accountable?, p37, Coffs Coast News Of The Area, 19 November Edition) regarding councillors being accountable for their actions and definitely to disclose what the majority of the community wants, especially when it comes to large expenditures

  DEAR News Of The Area, ONE does not have to be a scientist to understand that digging up or extracting materials that have been sequestered beneath the earth’s surface for millions of years and then burning them would inevitably damage the very environment that put them there in the first place. It

  DEAR News Of The Area, LAST Thursday evening, I attended Macksville Showground to hear the prospective platforms of the Nambucca Valley local election candidates. There was a good turn out of 'grey heads', and a significant absence of 18-30 year olds. Each candidate had three minutes to deliver their message, and each candidate

  DEAR News Of The Area, THE Four Corners program of 8 November 21 and Len Roberts’ subsequent advertisement-statement in last week’s NOTA raises more questions than it purports to answer. 1. If the Karuah Aboriginal Land Council was in “extreme financial crisis”; surely it was incumbent on the then CEO to maximise

  DEAR News Of The Area, IN regards to the rezoning as an amendment to the Council’s Local Environmental Plan allowing for the approval for a large commercial property being built on Bennetts Beach, Hawks Nest. If you live nearby or frequent this rare coastal natural beauty, you know how precious it is

  CHRISTMAS is a time for giving. Four charities in Coffs Harbour are working together to enable people to give to families who need some extra help this year at Christmas via the Support-a-Family Christmas Appeal. Leon Walsh, President of St Augustine’s Conference, St Vincent de Paul Society, Coffs Harbour, said he was

  DEAR News Of The Area, SHOULD we really be supporting any of the current Councillors to represent us for another term? Whichever side of the fence you sit on, it is hard to deny that they are all culpable in allowing the current situation to occur and causing the citizens to be

  DEAR News Of The Area, SAWTELL Headland is a magnificent place to visit on both warm days and wild and windy ones. Unfortunately, it is becoming a bit of a mausoleum with plaques being glued on to various rocks to commemorate lost loved ones who obviously also loved this space. I understand the